Are there any known issues for windows 7 32bit OS?

I have just tried several times to load Stellarium onto a friend of mine's computer. I am able t download OK and install but when I run the programme all of the text sensitive pop-up's consist of small squares instead of a description of the buttons and icons along the bottom and the tool bar on the left. Where there are numerical descriptions these show OK but the text does not. Instead all I see is small squares. For example the default Cardinal point of SOUTH which represented normally with an S shows up as three small squares. Is it possible that there is a problem with running Stellarium on a windows 7 platform and if so is there a patch that can fix this?

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I couldn't get Stellarium to run in Win 7 x32 until I reset the 3D options on my graphics card to let application decide 3D settings. I would suggest going to the graphics card display options and restoring them to default values. Seems very much like a display problem!

I do apologise but on double checking the OS I now find that it is a 64 bit OS. Would you say that the same would apply. I have already tried to update the graphics driver from within the device manager but am told that the current driver is up to date!!

Look into the Graphics Display properties, nearly all graphics cards these days have their own graphics setting control program. Ensure you have the let application decide 3D settings checked, anti-aliasing and filtering both application controlled or on.

This is nothing to do with the graphics driver version. incorrect settings for your graphics card can cause a host of problems. If unsure just check the restore default option!

Other programs or games might have forced other than default graphics settings. Could also be caused with some monitor resolutions, especially wide-screen monitors. Try a standard setting like 1280x1024 and see what happens.

Many apologies once again for the previous comment. I have just run Stellarium via the (no OpenGL2) shortcut on my 64 bit version of Vista and looking back through the start menus I have stumbled across the "Last run log" within the Stellarium directory. However, after previously running a search on all text files ie (*.txt) I don't understand why it didn't show up in the search!! I take it that this "Last run log" is the text file you are reffering to?
Also my friends' computer doesn't appear to have any kind of GUI for making changes to the settings or setting to default, but I will try checking the monitor resolutions to see if this makes any differenc. As an absolutely last resort I suppose that we could install a new inexpensive graphics graphics card and disable his onboard graphics, but a bit extreme don't you think?

Thanks to you all for trying to help me on this. Stellarium is such a brilliant programme it would be a shame if my friend would be unable to use it.

Well I have just come back from my friend's house after following all of the suggestions that you have made unfortunatley to no avail. So taking Alexander's suggestion of running Stellarium via the (no Open~GL2) shortcut and checking the run log, apart from seeing the line:

2011-09-23T11:04:36
Unsupported Windows version

Which was not very insiring, I could't see anything else that made much sense to me. I enclose a copy of the txt file below:

11:06 23/9/2554 after I had keyed F5 to insert current date and time for the text file. I thought this rather odd and asked my friend if he could explain why this was so. He is married to a Thai (as I am as well) and she and her friends thought it clever to adjust the system clock to the BE (Bhuddist Erra) which is some 543 years ahead of Christian time (AD). So I thought hang on a minute, Stellarium is reliant upon time constraints and that maybe, just maybe this could be causing the problem. So, I adusted the RTC to the proper time and well, what do you know? Problem solved. So folks, for future refference, if you have this situation again, you will know how to resolve it!!

Many, many thanks for all of your input and if there is anything I can do to help......................please let me know.